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Homeless Shelters

Posted inIsolation

City Shuttles Homeless and Other Virus Patients to Hotels

March 25, 2020, 7:58 p.m.April 6, 2020, 4:54 p.m.
Officials line up 500 rooms to isolate shelter residents and public hospital patients with nowhere to go. But hotel workers won’t get masks.
Posted inHealth

NYC Hospitals Send Homeless Who Have Coronavirus to Shelters

March 23, 2020, 4:27 p.m.April 6, 2020, 4:54 p.m.
At least one person who tested positive has been funneled to the city shelter system amid spiking cases and scramble to create more isolation spaces.
Posted inHomelessness

First Homeless Shelter Resident Tests Positive for Coronavirus

March 17, 2020, 9:52 p.m.April 6, 2020, 4:54 p.m.
The woman’s dorm-mates have been placed into quarantine as New York City officials grapple with how to contain outbreaks in a packed shelter system.
Posted inHomelessness

Court Deal Would Guarantee Shelter for Some Homeless Teens

March 2, 2020, 4:00 a.m.April 6, 2020, 4:55 p.m.
Runaways ages 16 and 17 would get beds on demand in youth-appropriate shelters, under proposed pact between City Hall and Legal Aid.
Posted inSocial Services

How Mike Bloomberg’s NYC Homeless Record Clashes With Campaign Promises

Feb. 25, 2020, 7:53 p.m.April 6, 2020, 4:55 p.m.
The city shelter population grew by 71% during his mayoralty. Now a plan to tackle “national emergency” embraces tactics he scrapped at City Hall.
Posted inHomelessness

NYC’s Biggest Shelter Plagued by Asbestos and Other Dangers

Jan. 13, 2020, 4:10 a.m.April 6, 2020, 4:55 p.m.
Manhattan’s 30th Street Men’s Shelter, which houses up to 850 homeless, is rife with code violations that include fire safety hazards, records show.
Posted inHousing

From Shelter to Home to Street: One Man’s Homeless Struggle

Nov. 21, 2019, 4:05 a.m.May 17, 2023, 2:55 p.m.
Karim Walker counted as a success story when he moved into permanent housing. Now, he’s living in the subways. Can de Blasio’s new Outreach NYC help?
Posted inQueens

Queens Homeless Shelter Foes Make Last-Ditch Efforts to Stop Project

Nov. 12, 2019, 4:00 a.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 7:28 a.m.
A City Council member and local opponents to planned a shelter for homeless men in a former factory site in Glendale call for probe, plan lawsuit.

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